Re: hassels getting rid of removed package files from yum

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On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Morgan Read wrote:

> Hello Folks
>
> I've installed a tor package from the fedora repo some time back.
>
> Today I removed that package and attempted to install similar package
> from the tor repo: http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/rpm/fc11/
>
> In response I got yum install tor:
> ...


the tor pkg in fedora is a 'metapkg' which just draws in the other ones.

You want to run something like:

yum remove tor\*

especially tor-core.

-sv